Last weekend, hubby and I went for lunch. So off we toodled to a restaurant we’d previously been to, one we knew had good food and fast service. Upon arriving, we requested a booth, but the hostess ushered us to a small table along the main aisle. I’m not sure what it is about the way we appear. Maybe we …
Will’s Thoughts on Houdini The Mouse Houdini The Mouse Versus The Mouse Traps began on Friday March 9th, so after you read it, check out the video at the bottom of this post for the conclusion of ‘Houdini’s War’! What started as a scratching noise in our ceiling, has now escalated to a full scale rodent war. Now, don’t get …
Bringing back their childhood days of riding ‘Big Wheels’, man children have introduced a potentially brain damaging new sport called, Trike Drifting. It is a new extreme sport that uses modified tricycles. To launch the trikes, these tri-wheeled Einsteins hang onto ropes and then get towed behind vehicles. Once they’ve reached limb breaking speed, they release the tow rope, and …
True or False? Have you ever wondered how to tell which bread is the freshest? Many of us squeeze loaves to determine their softness, some even try to smell it. But there’s actually a much easier way. Every packaged loaf of bread comes with some kind of a closure. Because breads were once baked in bakeries, then delivered to the …
I’ve often thought that it’s a good thing that we can’t read each others minds. If we could I’m sure I’d be labeled “certifiable”, “crazy”, or “a danger to myself and society”. “I was attending a meeting the other night and all my mind was interested in was yakking to itself. Sometimes I feel that I am just a third …
Hank knows what to do with all the litter in Washington, DC, and believes paws down that he has more to offer Virginian voters than his rival candidates, George Allen and Tim Kaine, both former governors, who are running to replace the retiring senator, Jim Webb. The Springfield, Virginia catidate is running for the U.S. Senate as an independent write-in. …
Six Simple Rules Many people lack hope and feel hopelessly incapable of changing their lives for the better, most of them, only because they simply dono’t know how to. There is no pill to take, ointment to apply or ritual to perform to magically make it happen, but anyone and everyone who will follow a few simple rules will achieve …
Religious students failed an exam for not helping a beggar. This story is based upon a real study of religious students that was conducted for a social psychology class at Princeton University during 1970. In order to study the influence that variables can have on compassion, seminary students were asked to take part in a study on religious education and …
How awesome are people in New Orleans? Absolutely Awesome! When an 11-year-old girl with autism went to see the Krewe of Muses parade during Mardi Gras, a man almost set her hair on fire with his cigarette, and spilt beer over her before calling her a “retard”, at first to his friends, and then later to her face. Emily Mueller …
Will’s Thoughts On How Art Imitates Life. It is said that art imitates life, and it sure must be so, because in the last one hundred years, the world has gone from looking like a Norman Rockwell painting to a Picasso abstract interpretation. Cherry cheeked children that once inspired peach crate labels, wear more make-up than drag queens today as …
Happy Birthday To Me! This Friday is my sixty-second birthday. I’m not at the point that I am ready to brag about my age either. Hubby wanted to know if I’d like to have a party, and we all know how much trouble that is. It’s not the fact that I don’t want to listen to others’ pensions schemes and …
Playing A Scammer Involving G Freight Company, David Marvel And The Ordering Of Organic Bumpy Walled Banners For Blue Walls A while ago, when I was surfing the net I came across a website where they had fun with shipping scammers. So, when I received an email from a Mr. David Marvel wanting to buy some banners (I don’t have), …
Did you know there is an ugly side of beauty? The sad truth is that many salons hire people who have never attended a reputable trade school, and are not qualified to be performing services.Salons, that care so little as to employ these unqualified people, put you at serious risk for many serious diseases and disorders. They can also ‘accidentally’ …
When James Harrison, from Australia, first started giving blood about 56 years ago, he never thought he would end up saving the lives of over 2 million children. Harrison made a pledge to become a donor at the age of 14, after undergoing major chest surgery, in which he himself needed 13 litres of blood. “I was in the hospital …
An Angry Young Man Jake was an angry young man who hated everybody. He also hated shopping. He was walking angrily around in a large department store, when he spotted a cashier handing a little boy holding a new doll back some money. The boy couldn’t have been more than 5 years old. Jake heard the cashier say, “Sorry, Hon, …
Will’s Thoughts On Tips To Survive Menopause. During menopause, a woman’s ovaries stop making eggs and they produce less estrogen and progesterone. Changes in these hormones cause menopause symptoms. In man speak, that translates to “Run Forrest. Run Forrest, run!” It is the biological time of a woman’s life when she is most dangerous. Her intellect is peaking, her self …
I have to admit that I am not the world’s most observant person, but lately some things have had me sitting up and taking notice. Saturday the hubby and I went to do a few errands. Walking into a hardware store, I couldn’t help but notice a gentleman standing across the aisle. Whispering to hubby, I made the comment “Look …
Retailers Scanned Wrong Barcode Sony BMG released a 3-CD set, called Electric 80s, in 2005. The compilation of the greatest electric hits of the 1980s featured a reproduction of a UPC bar code on the cover art, with the title “ELECTRIC 80s” placed in the space at the bottom of the bar code where the numbers would normally appear. The …